Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-03-12
ON A COLD TRAIL.
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hand allghted from d Western train
three days ago at the Union depUt On
Canal street. Her complexion was
brown, her cheeks were high and pro-
lecting. and her hair was Jet black. She
was plainly dressed, and probably the
most expensive article OF attire she
wore was her large, brown
vanished straw hat surrounded by q
purple feather. As she socked around
she station wonder:ngly. and her littls
bc7 at her side clung half frightened to
her dress, it was easy to see she was "a
stranger to Chicago. Approaching n
Of the men around the depot, she asked
several questions, shook her head
grayely once or twice, and then with
downward head, as Ii she were In TENS.
led her boy slowly up the stairway to
Canal street, where she stood for q few
minutes gazing alternately to all points
OF the compass.
"That seems to he a hind OF hard
case," SAID the depot-hanl whom she
had been questioning. she has come
with her by all the way f1om Pawnee
City, Neb., and if it haan's been for the
kindness of the other passengers on the
ears she would have been dropped
SDllG N1lEtG VA Gl!C IOdA lOAS GCIOiG S4tT
reached Chicago, because she started
without money or ticket, and, | dare
say, FOE that matter the pair
hadn't a morsel of grub be
tween them. You see, this il
how it is. She is 81 lalf-breed In
dian, and married q white naI-a la
Lorer on the railroad. When the mans
job was finished he deserted her N
her child and left her penniless. She
learned from some OF the other labor
ers that he had gone off to Chicago,
and without knowing anything about
Chicago. except that it wa a pretty big
village somewhere III the east, she
silently went home. dressed herself and
her boy, and boarded the first train to
&Ais city.
@The conductor vas telling NE all
about her. When he asked her for her
ticket she looked scared and said she
hadn't any, but if he wouldn't take her
aiong to Chicago she and the boy
would just step ont and walk-walk,
mind you, to Chicago from Nebraska.
Well, this kind Of staggered the con
ductor, who began to question her. She
raid she was going to ind her husband,
whose name was Thomas, and that she
didn't expect there would be any diff
Gculty in finding him, IS he would
pgobably be working among the other
laborers OF. the new track at Chicago.
You see, she thought Chicago was some
village where the railroad was going to
ae laid for the first time. Well, the
CONDUCTOR, g kna-hearted fellow.
didn't like to turn her off
she cars and A went among the
other passengers ard told them how
she squaw, as he called her, was going
TO take a walk to the village OF Chi
oago' to find her husband, who had
skipped out and lett her alone with a
boy. The word was passed around and
in half an hour MIS-. Thomas had not
on.y her fare paid, but a few dollars
over to get her food on the trip and still
leave her some money to get along with
N Chicago for q DAY Or so anyhow. For
two days she sat il the car, speaking to
Nobody and staring blank in front Of
her, and it wasn't until the third that
sne Tentured to ask the conductorlf she
wasn't going out Of her way and
23ip hint have passel hi. Thomas on
tie xosd. ILeIe .oes the 'sIuaw anG
papoose' now, along side tie fence up
%zaere," concluded the depot-1nan, "and
/ expect they'll have a tine CT it before
they chance upon Mr.. Thomas IN the
streets Of Chicago"
The same night the guests Of a small
hotel on South Canal street were
thrown into CONSERVATION BY singular
awakenings, and at breakfast next
morning they exchanged stores about
4I,o,r op1,o,ioraov +nwa-Ic fla usfoIipa
lour Of midnielt. Che said that he
was sound asleep in bed when he found
himself grabbed by the feet. BY the
IAN light he thought he beheld a giant
tugging at the bedclothes and heard a
sspulchral voice saying: You are my
husband; you come with me" An
other said that in his room fhere were
tl1yee fellows sleeping, when all OF a
sudden they were awakened by being
pushed and hauled about. They
sat up simultaneously and asked,
What in thunder is the mat
Ser?" and a voce replied,
Which OF yoa mans is my husband?"
All in turn condemned the specter
soundly for its intrusion, and it glided
away with a kind of grunt; but a few
seconds afterwards they heard q series
Of yells, and the clerk of the hotel came
tearing down the corridor with a wild
looking woman at his heels. He was in
his night-clothes. She caught him by
the hair and he yelled again. She
pulled him under the kerosene light.
He begged wildly for mercy. Gazing
steadily into his face for 8 few mo-
ments she pushed him away from
her with a gesture of disgust
and said, "Yeu amt no the man
4 want" By this time the whole
I,otai bod boaa arn,sod and q craud Of